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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 July 2019
... homoeroticism (see Menicucci 1998 ). Some work, notably Viola Shafik’s ( 2006 ), offers a sustained feminist analysis of gender in popular cinema. Meanwhile, work that addresses belly dance is often ethnographic in nature (e.g., Van Nieuwkerk 2010 ) or concerned with the transnational nature...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 416–422.
Published: 01 November 2019
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Carolina Bracco Abstract The appearance of the character of a femme fatale in Egyptian cinema in the mid-1950s is deeply intertwined with the new social and moral imprint made by the Nasserist regime. At a time when women’s participation in the public sphere was regulated, the portrayal of the evil...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 1–2. Samia Gamal in Ciro’s (1950) and Life (1951). Source: Catholic Cinema Center, Cairo.
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 1–2. Samia Gamal in Ciro’s (1950) and Life (1951). Source: Catholic Cinema Center, Cairo.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 177–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Burcu Dabak Özdemir Abstract This essay analyzes how postfeminism is constructed on a visual level in the Turkish context. It uses theories of postfeminism to discuss new popular romantic comedies of Turkish cinema by comparing the new female protagonists with the women portrayed in Yeşilçam...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 4–5. Pictures of Hind Rustum in magazines of the time, no date. Source: Catholic Cinema Center, Cairo.
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 4–5. Pictures of Hind Rustum in magazines of the time, no date. Source: Catholic Cinema Center, Cairo.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412039.
Published: 19 September 2024
...Alexander Jabbari Abstract This article attempts to think race, sexuality, and temporality together in modern Iran. By analyzing modern Iranian literature, cinema, and media, it argues that the figure of the Indian evokes difference embodied in physiognomy, language, and sexuality in the Iranian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 July 2022
... not have literature or cinema as their explicit focus; rather, they conduct a sociocultural and anthropological reading of masculinities. Matthew B. Parnell focuses on nineteenth-century Egyptian cartoons and discusses how masculinities serve in that context as symbols for the loss of power. Kathryn...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
... critics, viewers, and even politicians. Bataille
d’Alger has been mentioned in scores of articles over the years and is con-
sidered by many film historians to be the standard-bearer for engaged
cinema because almost every political film since 1966 is compared...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 88–90.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., the earliest dating from 1985 (“Th e Cinema aft er Babel
while the most recent, “Th e ‘Postcolonial’ in Translation: Reading Ed-
ward Said between English and Hebrew,” was published in 2004. Only
one of the essays is new, “Post-Fanon and the Colonial: A Situational
Diagnosis.” Yet...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 330–343.
Published: 01 November 2019
... is represented by technology, superimposing Cartesian divisions between mind and body onto Orientalist stereotypes: “All of our enchanting mechanical and scientific toys, all of our tempting sweet treats, all of our wise words, have failed to tempt or convince them. There are no cinemas, radios, planes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 56–85.
Published: 01 July 2007
.... However, we cannot discount this possibility.
Approaching his subject from the perspective of several years’ residency
outside of Israel/Palestine and with a European training in cinema may
well have provided him with the necessary distance to address Palestin-
ian culture and society critically...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 137–139.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Anne-Marie McManus The Light in Her Eyes , Meltzer Julia Nix Laura . New York : Cinema Guild , 2012 . 87 minutes. ISBN 0-7815-1415-0 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013 film review mn 137...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 104–107.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., a three-day event that brings together filmmakers and audiences at one of the region’s most popular art house cinemas. This year the festival’s curator and founder, the filmmaker and professor Tania Khalaf, included a variety of films that engaged with Arab women’s contemporary lives. I have selected four...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 March 2012
... widely
explored in Lebanese war cinema—is the culture of masculinity that
developed in the militias. In Lebanese postwar films, militiamen often
appear crazed, reckless, and violent, but also brimming with masculine
swagger. Some directors try to humanize militiamen by showing how
the “war...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 235–243.
Published: 01 July 2020
... with real cinema equipment that had been used by the New Wave movement, meaning a 16mm Beaulieu color camera and a Nagra sound recorder. So, that’s how it happened. The first move was to just be there, out of solidarity. And then we decided that things mattered so much that we wanted to record...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 264–282.
Published: 01 November 2020
... York : Routledge . Crenshaw Kimberlé . 1991 . “ Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color .” Stanford Law Review 43 , no. 6 : 1241 – 99 . Daković Nevena . 2010 . “ Love, Magic, and Life: Gypsies in Yugoslav Cinema...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 157–162.
Published: 01 July 2005
... Like Us (Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri)
2003, 60 minutes
Reviewed by Shahla Haeri, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
With lifting up the social restrictions in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq war,
and beginning in the early 1990s, Iranian cinema found a new...
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